Anti-abolitionist thought for the day

Please can we get this person a slot on Radio 4 instead of the current worthy religious dullards?

"Just as husbands can abuse wives, does it mean marriage is evil? Or parents can abuse their children, does it mean parenting is wrong? Because masters can be evil to their slaves, it doesn't mean that slavery is wrong."

[Via Pharyngula.]

In all seriousness, I once met someone who saw the abolition of slavery as the moment that political correctness first cast its sanity into doubt. Although he was not a sensible person, I did admire the single-mindedness with which he trudged off in the opposite direction at even the haziest spectacle of egalitarianism or social justice, and didn't stop even after he'd fallen off the edge of the world in the 12th century.

But I'm sure there's a modern, secular, libertarian argument for slavery too. As a first draft, how about...

Everyone, even the desperate and illiterate, own their own life absolutely and without preconditions. So if someone wishes to make a rational choice to sign away their freedom no-strings attached to a slave-trader, then HOW DARE the socialist State rob them of that inalienable right? This crushing of our right to be enslaved is yet another example of the totalitarian nanny State running wild and presuming that it, rather than individuals knows what's best for us, subjugating our wishes and choices to its own... (et cetera ad nauseam)

Going concerns

In a last-ditch bid to ward off the administrators...

1. Jeremy Kyle is in the news again. It's the same story as usual: unwitting public figure is exposed to the JK show, and reacts with disgust along the lines of Christ almighty, this shit is more evil and less funny than dwarf-tossing. Kyle's gimps respond with pack of lies about "conflict resolution". [Via JAM]

2. Cornish Nationalism - a political philosophy that I invented as a joke - has gone big time. [Via Ivan]

3. Peaking Melody, care of Yaron Herman:



This is good too.

BNP RIP

The antifascist blog Lancaster Unity is reporting that someone has published the entire BNP membership list online, including the names, addresses, and phone numbers every single member, plus info on their unsuspecting employers and their fascist hobbies (including line-dancing and witchcraft)... not to mention IP addresses and membership numbers.

Publishing the personal details of your political opponents for the convenience any passing psycho is a Red Watch tactic, and utterly irresponsible and contemptible.

So who did this? Marxoids? Antifas? Zionist spies? Islamofascists? Niggers? Nope, the word is that it was the slapstick BNP itself, or rather one disaffected senior member of it. Fucking bunch of clowns.

You can read the first few furious recriminations here.

One detail to emerge is that the BNP's official membership figures are a crock of shit: they add new members but don't delete those who die or resign.

[Via The Register]


UPDATE: I can confirm this is the truth. Or at least, if it's a spoof it's a very elaborate and convincing one. I'm not providing link, but it ain't far away if you're curious, and this horse has now irretrievably bolted.

"...member describes himself as a witch: potential embarrassment if active"

What's the difference...

...between writing for the Spectator and shouting at a bus-stop?

Blood and Treasure explains.

Liveblogging cricket: England versus Stanford

9:30pm Right, here we go.

9:40pm Not to tempt fate, but... so far so good.

9:44pm Oh fuck.

9:46pm Double fuck.

9:48pm Jesus. Fuck.

10:00pm For fuck's sake.

10:06pm Motherfucking hell.

10:21pm Fucking cunt.

10:32pm Cunting fuck.

10:39pm Wanking cunt.

10:45pm That's a bit more like it.

10:54pm Fuck.

10:59pm Oh... Boris Johnson.

11:00pm Right, sod this for a game of soldiers. Watching Dead Set instead.

12:45am Aaahhh... total perfection.

12:46am Oh buggering cock.